The sequel to the famed Star Trek episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles" takes a troubling dramatic turn after the rapidly multiplying furry creatures successfully cross breed with porcupines. Hundreds about the Enterprise are injured.

Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 16 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 24 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.

Hugh Freeze, recently ousted as football coach at the University of Mississippi, has explained the telephone calls to an escort service that led to his departure. He wanted to see more effective techniques for the quarterback to get up under the center. Freeze resigned after the institution threatened to fire him for illegal use of hands and having an uncovered end. ... In his later years in the assisted living center, Frodo, still thinking he has a ring of power that renders him invisible, is constantly found in the women's quarters with a plastic ring on his finger. ... Across the nation this week, tragedy abounded when National Take Your Hamster to Work Day inadvertently coincided with National Take Your Python to Work Day. ... An IBM project involving machine learning has been quietly ended after it was discovered a small number of computers was copying its results from other devices. IBM snatched some comfort from results, asserting this proved machines were becoming more like people. "We are only a few years away from software that can actually lie," a spokesman commented.

Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 16 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 24 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.

Moving to the cloud represents a challenge for mid-market accounting software resellers. Some make it more challenging by making the switch from marketing desktop applications to relying on subscription sales...

Reckon, which makes low-cost software that competes with QuickBooks Online, saw profit drop by 11.2 percent on virtually unchanged revenue from continuing operations for the first half ended June 30...

Unit4 has released a new version of Unit4 Financials. The Netherlands-based software company says the software's single, unified ledger system now enables customers to capture unlimited amounts of business-specific dimensions...

Infor has introduced Infor Visual 9.0, which is designed for order-driven manufacturing companies. Markets using the product include aerospace and defense; automotive; high tech and electronics; industrial manufacturing; machinery and...

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Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.